Verbal ability predicts abstinence from drugs and alcohol in a residential treatment population

Psychological Reports

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1354-1360

  Wehr, Allison ^b   Bauer, Lance O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; RECURRENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TEMPERANCE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0033141715     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.84.3c.1354     Document Type: Article

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